Arab Spring Research Links

Use the following websites to research your country. Note - for the New York Times link under each specific country, you will need to click "show more" at the bottom of the page to find relevant articles for most parts of your research.

General Resources:

BBC: Middle East Protests—Country by Country

New York Times: Arab Spring and Fall

Guardian: Arab Spring—An Interactive Timeline of Middle East Protests

BBC: How the Arab Spring began

Terrible Illusion of the Arab Spring

Costs of Arab Spring
The Unsexy Truth about why the Arab Spring Failed

Al Jazeera - click on the search button (magnifying glass on upper right of page), type "Arab Spring + (name of country)" then click on "Relevance." Scroll through articles that will help you.

Country-Specific Resources:

Egypt:

New York Times: Egypt News—Revolution and Aftermath

Egypt: The War of Attrition against Revolutionaries

Yemen:

New York Times: Yemen—Protests (2011)

BBC: Q&A–Yemen Crisis

Yemen in Disarray after Arab Spring

Libya:

New York Times: Libya—Revolution and Aftermath (2011)

BBC: Libya Conflict Q&A

Al Jazeera: Empire—A Revolution for All Seasons (watch 21:23-23:20)

Syria:

New York Times: Syria—Protests (2011)

Al Jazeera: Empire—A Revolution for All Seasons (watch 2:23-6:25)

Tunisia:

New York Times: Tunisia

Al Jazeera: Empire—A Revolution for All Seasons (watch 23:25-28:22)

How Tunisia Saved its Arab Spring